It is common for people to criticize American presidents, but history has shown that worse leaders and forms of government have existed. In Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude, Arcadio, a school teacher, after being given the position of Macondo’s leader by his uncle Colonel Aureliano Buendia, demonstrated how cruel certain forms of governing can be. For example, he had a trumpeter shot for playing a disrespectful melody. Additionally, when Don Apolinar Moscote insulted Arcadio
The French Revolution took place in the late eighteenth century, which a storm of literary works appeared in response to the violence and political upheaval. Among these literary works, notable writers such as Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and Mary Wollstonecraft also participated. Their work encompassed everything from the flawed monarchial system to class and gender issues, are still draw to discussions and debate today about the origins of modern political thought. Burke, Paine, and Wollstonecraft